Combined tissue and towel dispenser



R. A. CLARK Nov. 5, 1968 COMBINED TISSUE AND TOWEL DISPENSER Filed Aug.4, 1965 FIG.

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ROBERT A. CLARK Q mar United ates Paw 3,409,340 COMBINED TISSUE ANDTOWEL DISPENSER Robert A. Clark, Allentown, Pa., assignor to CaloricCorporation, Topton, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Filed Aug. 4,1965, Ser. No. 477,122 2 Claims. (Cl. 312-39) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSUREA cabinet, for dispensing soft tissues for facial use and towels forhand use. The cabinet is not limited to the use of towel rolls of adiameter larger than the depth of the cabinet. The door is detachablefor ease in re loading.

A cabinet having an open face and a door detachably hinged at its upperedge to the cabinet, and having an upper opening affording access to apackage of facial tissues carried by the inner side of the door, andhaving a lower opening affording access to a towel roll carried by thecabinet. The lower portion of the door rests on the towel roll and thusdoes not limit the diameter of the roll, which can be used to the depthof the cabinet.

My invention relates to a combined tissue and towel dispenser of thetype used in kitchens, bath-rooms, and other places where relativelylight and soft tissues and relatively heavy and coarse towels areneeded.

One object of the invention is to produce an improved dispenser of thetype set forth.

Presently, it is the practice to provide a tissue dispenser in the formof a container from which individual, prefolded tissue napkins may besuccessively withdrawn, and to suspend a towel roll on brackets or thelike which are secured to a wall or other support, and from whichpre-scored portions may be torn.

It is therefore a further object of the invention to provide a singlecontainer, or cabinet, which scores and dispenses tissues and towels.

An exposed paper towel roll is rather unsightly in any event, but moreso in modern, streamlined and aesthetically designed and equippedkitchens and bath-rooms.

It is therefore a still further object of the invention to produce animproved tissue and towel dispenser which is compact and attractive andwhich whooly encloses the tissue container and the paper towel roll.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the followingspecification and the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a combined tissue and toweldispenser embodying the invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view looking in the direction of line 22 on FIG.1.

FIG. 3 is an enlargement of the upper portion of FIG. 2.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view looking in the direction of line. 4-4 on FIG.3.

FIG. 5 is a rear perspective view of the cabinet door shown detached.

A combined tissue and towel dispenser embodying the invention comprisesa cabinet formed of a back wall 12, side walls 14, a top wall 16, and abottom wall 18. The front edges of walls 14, 16 and 18 coact to define afront opening which is normally closed by a door 20. Door 20 is formedof a front wall 21, side walls 25 and 3,409,340 Patented Nov. 5, 1968 atop wall 28 which define a box-like structure which coacts with thecabinet as follows:

Door 20 is pivotally and detachably mounted in position by means ofslots 22 which are formed in side walls 24, and which engage studs 26which are carried by side walls 14. To permit mounting and de-mountingof the door, sufficient clearance is provided between the top wall 28 ofthe door and top wall 16 of the cabinet. Slot-s 22 are so arranged that,when unrestrained, the door assumes a substantially vertical position.

On its inner side, the front wall 21 of door 20 is provided with ahorizontal shelf 30 which is adapted to support a box 32 containingtissue or napkins 33, access to which is had through upper opening 34.The napkin containing box is held in position, firmly, but removably, bytabs 35 which are lanced out of wings 37 of shelf 30. The metal fromwhich shelf 30 and wings 37 are made and the shape of the wings providesa yielding pinching effect which prevents unintended displacement of thenapkin box.

Below shelf 30 is a pair of brackets 36 which are secured to side walls14 of the cabinet and which carry studs 3-8 for engaging the cardboardsleeve which carries paper towel roll 40. Instead of providing a specialslot through which the leading end 42 of the paper towel roll may bethreaded, the lower edge of the door is cut away as at 44 so as toprovide a slot through which the end 42 of the towel roll projects.

To load the dispenser, door 20 is removed, a towel roll 40 is mounted ontrunnions 38, a full tissue container 32 is placed on shelf 30', and thedoor is replaced. When the paper towel roll is new, it has a largediameter, and the door in its closed position, will be somewhat slanted.As the diameter of the towel r-oll decreases, the door assumes aprogressively more vertical position. In any event, the tissue containerand towel roll are both concealed, and the towels pulled out are cut offeither by pulling up against the lower edge 44 of the door or by pullingdown against the front edge of bottom wall 18 of the cabinet.

What I claim is:

1. A tissue and towel dispenser including:

a cabinet having an open front compartment for receiving a towel supplyand having opposed forwardly extending side walls,

a door for closing the front of said cabinet and carrying on its innersurface a container for receiving a supply of tissue,

said door having a first opening affording access to the tissue supplycarried in the container on the back thereof and a second openingaffording access to the towel supply in said compartment, and

means removably hinging the upper end of said door to the upper end ofsaid cabinet whereby said door assumes its closing position by gravity,said hinging means comprising a pair of rearwardly extending side wallsand a top wall all of which interfit within said compartment, a pair ofopposed upwardly and forwardly extending slots one in each of said sidcwalls of the door near the top thereof, and a pair of opposed inwardlyextending studs mounted one in each of the opposed side walls of thecompartment, the

. i V" ,3 dvlv'lu slots'erigging respe'ctive'studs whereby the door is2,738,848 removably hingedly mounted on the compartment. 2,948,451

2. The dispenser defined in claim 1 wherein said second 2,805,112

opening is formed by spacing the lower edge of said door from the loweredge of the compartment. 5

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1/1939 Von Schlegell 312-383/1956 1.ee 3r2 39 x 8/1960 Swanson 312-39 X 9/1957 Krueger 31239 XRFOREIGN PATENTS 9/1965 Canada.

BOBBY R. GAY, Primary Examiner.

J. L. KOHNEN, Assistant Examiner.

